“Anyone who, like Philip Roth, observes how peripheral literature has become to the common culture might regard the victory for freedom of expression as pyrrhic. If everything goes, does anything matter?”
Tag: 06.13.14
Turning Andy Warhol’s Whiteface Drag Polaroids Into A Voguing Ballet
How artist Raja Feather Kelly created Andy Warhol’s DRELLA (I Love You Faye Driscoll). (includes video)
Want To Sell Luxury Condos? Better Get Some Artists Involved
“Perhaps it isn’t so surprising that in this era, which some have termed the new Gilded Age, the worlds of art and real estate have once again begun to merge.”
What We Lose – And The Weird Things We Fight For – When Nostalgia Blurs Our Past
“Even as many affluent liberals supported the Bloomberg administration’s ban on tree-trunk-size containers of soda, great labors were made to maintain the prominence of Pepsi’s enormous neon billboard overlooking the East River in Queens.”
How Do We Save The History Of Recorded Sound? Ask An Optical Physicist
“In the scope of human history, the era of recorded sound is a blip—and yet the volume and fragility of what’s been created in that time is overwhelming.”
Semi-Staged Opera Is The Next Big Thing. Is That Good?
“Particularly in smaller cities, some opera companies have drastically cut their offerings or have closed completely, and symphony orchestras want to pick up the slack and vary their programming, while lacking the resources or appropriate hall for a traditional production.”
No, George Lucas, Don’t Put Your Museum In Los Angeles
“The last thing that the home of Hollywood needs is George Lucas’ treacly art collection, which is replete with more positivity than a film feature devoted to Jar Jar Binks.”
When A Music Channel Protects Itself To Death
“Kids do not watch music videos on television. You’re not going to wait for somebody to program a music video when you have a million available on Vevo. That has hurt the channel.”
The Explosively Popular TV Recap Genre Is Fun, But It Could Ruin Criticism
“If you look at the rise of popular criticism since World War II, the trajectory had been an engagement with larger social issues with relation to popular culture. I don’t see recappers doing that now.”
Ai Weiwei Backs New, Multimillion Dollar Digital Art ‘Space’
“Ai compiled the list of names of 5,196 student victims via his blog after accusations that shoddy construction work had caused the collapse of thousands of classrooms during the quake.”